<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I know its not officially supported. This is a test system at home running CentOS7, syslog-ng 3.8 from repo and the latest 5.0 ES Stack. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everything works fine without x-Pack using the http client-mode but x-pack does not appear to be Shield. </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.0/security-migration.html#_removed_privileges" class="">https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.0/security-migration.html#_removed_privileges</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just trying to prepare for when the ES5 stack is GA. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2016, at 3:34 AM, Fabien Wernli <<a href="mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr" class="">wernli@in2p3.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Scot,<br class=""><br class="">On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 02:40:44AM -0400, Scot Needy wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> Installed the x-pack to secure my ES instance and Kibana but noticed there does not seem to be any docs on how to handle ES authentication in from syslog-ng.conf. <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think you're looking for `client-mode(shield)` as stated later in the<br class="">documentation [1].<br class=""><br class="">FWIW I successfully tested it some time ago.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">[1]<br class=""><a href="https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/destination-elasticsearch2-client-modes.html" class="">https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/destination-elasticsearch2-client-modes.html</a><br class="">______________________________________________________________________________<br class="">Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng<br class="">Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng<br class="">FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>